Running Hurricane Ike thread

It is sad, but if I was told to get out or die and I didn't get out, I would deserve to die.
The best part about the food going bad?
You'll lose your fridge. All the food will spoil, and it will make stink that will not go away. So you end up throwing the fridge out.
One of the things I remember from doing some Katrina coverage. All the fridges lined up in the streets, waiting for the garbage man.

 

A photo submitted to KTRK of one person's method of protecting his car ...

 

It's on the house, ma'am.

 

Roger Clemens works for Shiner now?

 

I laughed out loud at that...

 

Driving to my brother's house to clean up the damage today, I was struck by the sheer number of people on the streets just looking around. God knows there is enough work to keep an army busy, so don't look, folks, pitch in and help!

No sympathy for those who stubbornly stayed in Galveston and the Bolivar peninsula. Suicidal maniacs. Plus, their insanity is costing valuable resources that could be going to those who obeyed and lost everything inland.

 

Thank you! I must say a couple of these did improve my bad mood and make me much better company.

 

We're doing fine (see the thread on anything goes), but a little battered and in the dark. We were prepared, but you can only stockpile so much gas, etc. Anyway, the big shortages are in power and gas. Several stores have reopened so there's not as much of a food impact, up here, anyway. My work is closed, at least locally, for at least another day, so getting services restored is the biggest concern now. There weren't too many injuries up here, but even one is too many.

This storm was much worse than Hurricane Alicia in 1983. We lived much further south when it hit and the damage we sustained, nearly 85 miles from the coast, was at least double what we got with Alicia.

Despite some of the bad stories or interviews you might have seen or read, most of the Houston and Galveston areas are really banding together to try to get recovered. But Galveston was absolutely devastated, I can tell you with all certainty. The Strand, the historic area and shopping district that was a MUST on any visit to Galveston, was completely devastated. Seeing images of the damage caused my heart to ache.

More than that, thought, are the people of Galveston who died. The death toll is going to be much higher than what it is already, I can assure you of that. They should have left, but far too many didn't, and they paid for it with their lives. Doesn't make it any less sad, though.

But we will get through this and back on track, a little worse for the wear, though.

 

One thing I would seriously urge for all my bros and sisses in hurricane territory.

Buy a number of MREs. The military-styled "meals ready to eat"

The entree, as non-Ruth's Chris as it may be, only needs water to be heated up and, under the circumstances these people are in now - I have spent eight days in this same situation, albeit with my house still lnhabitable, lucky me - these MREs were damned useful. And, they keep, unrefrigerated, forever.

http://www.mrestar.com/

 

MRE: infinitely preferable to C-rations or MCIs.

Or not eating, for that matter.

When I was in the Army, they hadn't figured out the FRH yet.

@Simon: They have a three-year shelf life.

 

MREs, if memory serves me well, also do a pretty good job of clogging you up such that the need for a bathroom stop is less frequent.

 

Other things "MRE" might mean:

Meal, Rarely Edible
Meal Refusing to Exit
Material Resembling Edibles
Three lies for the price of one: It's not a Meal, it's not Ready and you can't Eat that shit.

Back in the day, you could pull together something resembling pizza from various MRE ingredients.